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Latest Writing
2021
Notes on an Open Scraping Database
29 March 2021
Reimagining the Research Lab
24 February 2021
The Coming Era of Tokenized Essays
26 January 2021
The Consultant Out of Time
strategy
26 January 2021
Why can't I write code inside my browser?
14 January 2021
2020
Filtered for... margin notes
17 December 2020
Weak Ties & Strong Intros
strategy
10 December 2020
A Letter to Arnold
30 November 2020
6 Years on the Road
10 November 2020
The Economic Power of Real-time Chat Spaces
22 September 2020
Podcasts with Offline Rocks & Hundreds of Ways
18 September 2020
Further thoughts about GoodReads & the web books ecosystem
14 September 2020
Filtered for... inquiry vs insight
19 August 2020
The Contrary Consultant
strategy
18 August 2020
What makes a good "hire me" page?
11 August 2020
Generating an alumni network for indies
6 August 2020
re: More experiments with video calls, and what slides are for
1 August 2020
Updates to Quotebacks
24 July 2020
Some notes on Thinking in Public
23 July 2020
The Indie Consulting Business Model Canvas V0.1
23 July 2020
Opening up in Open Spaces
16 July 2020
Setting up a Discord Room for my Blog
8 July 2020
Quotebacks for Firefox is here!
2 July 2020
Can Calendly Unbundle NYC?
26 June 2020
Navigating Power & Status
strategy
24 June 2020
Exploring ScrollToTextFragment
10 June 2020
disaster!
10 June 2020
Introducing: Quotebacks
9 June 2020
Sparring & Tenure for Indie Consultants
28 May 2020
Filtered for... writing inside organizations
27 May 2020
Filtered for... the design of virtual spaces
22 May 2020
Filtered for... Play
20 May 2020
A Good Looking Tiddly Theme for Digital Gardens
19 May 2020
The Challenges of Remote Consulting
6 May 2020
Collective Narratives & Sensemaking in Uncertainty
30 April 2020
TiddlyBlink on Glitch
20 April 2020
Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads
15 April 2020
After Peacetime
13 April 2020
The Quarantined Independent
8 April 2020
Tap tap test
31 March 2020
Of Blogs and Beacons
23 March 2020
My Bandcamp Blogging Bandwagon Reccs
20 March 2020
Announcing- The Bandcamp Blogging Bandwagon
19 March 2020
New Blogging 3 - Blog Patterns
16 March 2020
Narrative Strategy
20 February 2020
Building an ebook version of Journey to the End of the Night for Erin
27 January 2020
2019
Blocking & Unblocking Clients
strategy
6 December 2019
Optimism as an Operating System
strategy
19 November 2019
Yes! And...
strategy
18 November 2019
Fellow travellers on the road
14 November 2019
Webmention believers...
5 November 2019
Testing Webmentions
1 November 2019
A blog tour
1 November 2019
New Blogging 2 - Open Blogchains
31 October 2019
5 years on the road
24 October 2019
Understanding Marketing Realities
22 October 2019
Occult Ads
21 October 2019
Consulting Success Podcast
30 September 2019
Sweathead Podcast Appearance
26 September 2019
Workshops as Portals
strategy
23 September 2019
Networked Communities 3 - Sidewalk Spaces and Positive Gatekeeping
10 September 2019
Networked Communities 2 - Blogging as a Social Act
4 September 2019
Networked Communities 1 - Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more?
1 September 2019
Space for Creativity
30 July 2019
S, M, L 1 - Wither Substack
18 July 2019
New Blogging 1 - Building Blogchains
17 July 2019
Help me write my book by annotating the outline
12 July 2019
The One Page Strategy Canvas
28 June 2019
How (and why) to roll your own frameworks in consulting engagements
strategy
27 June 2019
Planting new varietals in my digital garden
19 June 2019
Using Bookmarklets to Script Static Sites
19 June 2019
Blood In the Feed
6 June 2019
Integrating Annotations into a Static Blog
23 May 2019
Blogpunk
17 May 2019
Ditching Hourly Podcast Appearance
26 April 2019
The Strategic Independent
strategy
4 April 2019
Magical Mystery Mix
20 March 2019
Strange Attraction
strategy
12 March 2019
I, consultant?
strategy
27 February 2019
Building a digital garden
17 February 2019
Exploring the UX of web-annotations
12 February 2019
Weird Work
22 January 2019
2018
Ways of Seeing
strategy
29 October 2018
Four Years on the Road
24 October 2018
Who do I know in the kids book publishing world?
16 October 2018
Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens
10 October 2018
Narrative spaces
maps-as-media
24 September 2018
For the love of maps
maps-as-media
19 September 2018
The power of labels
strategy
17 September 2018
For the record blogging
13 September 2018
How to make AMP stories using Jekyll and Github Pages
6 September 2018
The Practice of Media Design
25 July 2018
Re-booting the Malcontents Podcast and Looking for Feedback
14 July 2018
High Fidelity Consulting
strategy
10 July 2018
Community Economics & A Kitty-Turtle Hybrid
9 July 2018
Strategy and stewardship
strategy
28 June 2018
PDF Aesthetics
8 June 2018
Thank you Seth
6 June 2018
How to get things done
strategy
1 June 2018
Some good links
20 May 2018
Atemporality of the Corporation
strategy
17 April 2018
Strategy is the organic flow of ideas and people
strategy
8 March 2018
Talking getting things done with Ross Hudgens & Corey Eulas
7 March 2018
Talking consulting on the Boundless podcast
26 February 2018
Small b blogging
23 February 2018
The Malcontents Episode 4 & 5
9 February 2018
In the land of hierarchy, the networked individual is king
strategy
2 February 2018
Who gives a shit about your content?
30 January 2018
Experiments in Networked Writing
5 January 2018
2017
Talking about careers
14 December 2017
Decentralized Revenue
13 December 2017
The Malcontents Episode 3
8 December 2017
A few notes on blogging & independent feeds
27 November 2017
The Malcontents Episode 2
27 November 2017
The Malcontents
16 November 2017
Intimate Marketing
14 November 2017
Privacy Glitch
7 November 2017
Three years on the road
strategy
24 October 2017
Algorithmic text is exciting
20 October 2017
How do you measure good content?
3 October 2017
00FF00
22 September 2017
The Consultant's Grain
strategy
18 July 2017
Branding in the age of Content
27 June 2017
The Beginner's Guide to Community Building
5 June 2017
Context Collapse, Brands & Content
20 April 2017
The State of Content
24 February 2017
Some Interesting Media Strategy Jobs
14 February 2017
The Importance of Launching
26 January 2017
2016
Some Interesting Agencies
16 December 2016
A fieldguide for independent strategy consultants
strategy
14 December 2016
Every Blog Takes a Village
1 December 2016
Informal breakfast 2
30 November 2016
On Conferences
22 November 2016
Starting an informal breakfast thing
1 November 2016
Two years on the road
strategy
24 October 2016
Indie Blogging & Distribution
21 October 2016
Where will the next Twitter come from?
20 October 2016
Death of the Industrial Advertising Complex
9 September 2016
A Day In the Consultant's Life
strategy
29 August 2016
Intentional Communities
25 August 2016
Blogging, Not Blogging
9 August 2016
Why I've decided not to launch a brand for my consulting work
strategy
1 August 2016
An alternative to the bullshit industrial complex
3 June 2016
Using Facebook Messenger as a Free Intercom Replacement
10 May 2016
Intermodal Media
21 January 2016
What does it mean to build a marketing team for your startup?
7 January 2016
2015
In The Future We Will All Fall Madly in Love With Our Toasters
13 September 2015
You're Not Blogging, My Friend.
3 September 2015
A Meander Into Architecture
24 August 2015
Google Photos for Work
5 June 2015
Poetry & Markdown for What?
11 May 2015
Mediated Maps & Digital Blind Spots
5 May 2015
How to use Google Slides as a free cloud-hosted illustrator replacement
20 April 2015
Decentralized Brands & The Future of Content Marketing
15 April 2015
Links April 9th
9 April 2015
Links March 24th
24 March 2015
Blog For The Young Things
23 March 2015
Back to Blogging
22 March 2015
Links Jan 26th
26 January 2015
2014
Random Acts of Algorithms
3 December 2014
Predicting A Global Economic Crash in 2025
1 December 2014
Let Me Know How I Can Help
1 April 2014
My Investment Thesis
1 February 2014
2013
Creativity vs Innovation
22 March 2013
2012
The 500 Year Old Meteor Doodle
15 November 2012
The Art of Being Switched On
12 April 2012